Kates Notes: Due to the condition of the original material, any portions in doubt have been place within brackets.

From The Oakland Tribune
Oakland, California
05 October, 1938

Jealous Fresno Suitor Charged
With Murdering Waitress
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   Fresno, Calif., Oct. 5 -- (AP) -- District Attorney Dan F. Conway today announced [Olen or Glen] Jones, 23, Fresno cafe worker, confessed he shot and killed Edith Frances Gilliland, 23, waitress, at her apartment when she rejected his plea to elope with him to Reno, Nev.
   Jones was captured last night by Bakersfield  police two hours after he shot Miss Gilliland six times while another suitor, Fred Danielsen, 23, Fresno truck driver, waited downstairs for the girl to accompany him on a “date”.
MURDER CHARGED
   Conway filed a murder complaint against Jones, declaring statements made by Danielsen revealed Jones previously had threatened to kill the girl and appeared at her apartment last night armed with an automatic pistol and 60 bullets.
   “Everyhting went blank,” Conway quoted Jones as saying. “I was pleading with her when all of a sudden flashes came before me and I began shooting. Then everything went blank and I did not come to my senses until I found myself in Bakersfield.”
   Danielsen, in a statement to the police, described the events leading up to the shooting. He said:
GIRL HEARD CRYING
   “Miss Gilliland and I were just preparing to leave her apartment when Jones showed up and asked if he could talk to her alone. Jones seemed nervous and a few minutes later I heard Edith crying. I yelled at Jones if he did not let her go I would notify the police. When he told me not to come upstairs or he would stop me I started for a telephone and when I was about 100 yards from the apartment house I heard several shots fired.”
   Funeral services for Miss Gilliland, a native of Reedley, a farming community near Fresno, will be conducted Friday at Reedley.
   Jones said his parents are Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Jones, of Springfield, Mo. He said he came to Fresno a year ago and had attended school at [Stoutland], Mo.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010